| NOTE: This article only covers the symbiote and excludes Cletus Kasady, as only the symbiote was voted Pure Evil. Thus, this article should only cover the symbiote aspect of Carnage, rather than his host. |
| “ | Let there be… CARNAGE!!! | „ |
| ~ Carnage's most famous quote and his villainous breakdown. |
| “ | Father, one of us must die. | „ |
| ~ Carnage's last words to his father, Venom. |
The Carnage Symbiote is one of the two titular main antagonists (alongside Cletus Kasady) of the 2021 superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
He is a highly destructive and homicidal symbiote, who bonds with the infamous serial killer, Cletus Kasady, to unleash carnage upon San Francisco. He is also the spawn/son and the second archenemy of Venom.
He was voiced by Woody Harrelson, who also played Harlan DeGroat in Out of the Furnace.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He was cruel and destructive from the moment when he was born, sadistically killing humans for fun rather than sustenance, and wanting to be the only symbiote on Earth due to his hatred towards his own father Venom.
- He bonded with Cletus Kasady to escape execution, not out of a genuine desire to save his life but to use him in his goal.
- While he acted friendly with Cletus and helped him rescue his girlfriend Shriek, he was only using Cletus for his own goal to kill his own father Venom, so that he would be the only symbiote on Earth and become unstoppable.
- The way Carnage's transformation works is that he ripped Cletus apart from the inside out showing he didn't care about him as foreshadowing.
- He went on a massacre in the San Quentin prison, killing at least dozens of guards as well as devouring the warden whole and indirectly freeing all the other inmates.
- When one guard begged him to spare his life because he has a family, he brutally murdered the latter by shoving his tongue down his throat until he died, showing no remorse or sympathy.
- He went on a murderous rampage, killing civilians in San Francisco (such as a homeless man to help Cletus get some clothes). Through dialogue, it is made clear that all of San Francisco would be at risk being slaughtered by Carnage.
- He launched a random car into the ocean, killing the driver and presumably anyone else that was inside.
- Alongside Cletus, he slaughtered the entire staff of Ravencroft Institute while freeing Shriek.
- He killed the authorities who arrived to stop them as they were escaping Ravencroft.
- He hated Shriek's sonic screams due to affecting his body, so he threatened to kill her. While this may seem like survival instinct, he knew that Cletus genuinely loved Shriek so that way he could keep Cletus in line with threats.
- He kidnapped Anne Weying and Patrick Mulligan to act as "witnesses" for Cletus and Shriek's wedding and lure Eddie Brock/Venom to kill them. Despite seeming altruistic towards Cletus at first, he killed the priest officiating the wedding by eating his head to gain a boost in power.
- He nearly killed Dan after he saved Venom.
- He attempted to make Eddie and Venom watch Anne die.
- After getting tired of Shriek's presence, he tried to kill her and forced Cletus to stay bonded with him even though the latter didn't want to and tried to stop Carnage from killing Shriek.
- He tortured Venom by stabbing him repeatedly with his tendrils until he nearly died.
- He left a piece of himself inside Patrick Mulligan, that became a new symbiote which left Patrick and is still out there, meaning he could return and torment the now Venom-less Eddie, meaning Carnage's legacy lives on.
- His actions, alongside Cletus and Shriek, led to Eddie and Venom becoming fugitives and being framed for Mulligan's supposed murder. Forcing them to leave San Francisco and friends, while also being hunted by the Imperium and the military, leading to Venom sacrificing himself to stop Knull from escaping.
- While having to compete with Carlton Drake and Riot, who wanted to commit genocide on humanity, he stood out due to only just being created during the film's story yet being able to commit mass murder and destruction with the few resources and days that he has, even managing to have a higher onscreen kill count than them and being more personally cruel to the heroes than either of them.
- Unlike Raimiverse's Green Goblin, he didn't have to compete with the Heinous Standards of the MCU multiverse, such as Red Skull, High Evolutionary, Dormammu, Thanos, Ego, Mysterio, Arnim Zola, etc, due to dying at the end of his film while never crossing over to the MCU universe. Thus, he stood out enough with his actions to be Pure Evil.
- Although most of his crimes are shared with Cletus due to bonding with him, Cletus did not qualify as Pure Evil due to his genuine love for Shriek, his tragedy of abuse and his moral standards, while Carnage lacked these qualities and is evil to the point where even Cletus was horrified towards (and fell victim to) Carnage's cruelty. While Eddie at least showed Cletus sympathy before the latter's death, Venom even commented that Carnage didn’t taste good when he ate him, proving that even he is also horrified about what Carnage did.
Trivia[]
- This is the only incarnation of Carnage where only the Carnage Symbiote counts as Pure Evil, but Cletus Kasady did not due to the latter's counterpart in this version being more sympathetic and having redeeming qualities.
- The Carnage Symbiote is the fifth Pure Evil villain to appear in a Spider-Man film, following Venom, Carlton Drake/Riot, and Mysterio.
- In a concept art animatic, the prison break was meant to be much more unpleasant and would have given the movie an R rating, as Carnage & Cletus immediately after bonding they go on a rampage only this time they target not just guards and the warden, but prisoners too and infect everyone and in extremely brutal ways too as one prisoner took a saw to his face and some guards got ripped in half, and last but not least, Carnage instead of eating the Warden's head off, stuffs it's tongue down the Wardens throat, ripping his flesh on the inside with spikes and making him explode from the inside,. If this was in the film, it would have made him a lot worse.
External Links[]
- Carnage on the Villains Wiki
- Carnage on the Disney Wiki
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